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''■^.,m: 


MONUMENT 


OF  A  BENEFICENT  MISSION  FROM  BOSTON   TO  St.  JOHNS.* 


■V  i 


AS   AFFENOIK  TO   VOJ..  I.    OF  THE 


T^IEXB  0¥  TEaCIl. 


God  hath  made  of  one  blood  all  nations  of  men  to 
dwell  on  all  the  face  of  the  earth.  However  widely  they 
may  be  separated  from  each  other  by  intervening  lands 
or  seas— -bowever  they  may  be  distinguished  by  a  di- 
versity of  features)  complexions,  and  names  ;  and  what- 
ever differences  there  may  be  in  the  several  countries  of 
the  world  as  to  forms  of  governmenti  modes  of  worship, 
privileges,  customs  and  manners }  still  all  men  have  one 
Father — all  men  are  brethren. 

This  important  sentiment  of  brotherhood  is  inculcated 
in  the  revelation  of  mercy  by  the  Son  of  God.  To  im- 
press and  enforce  this  sentiment ;  to  abolish  those  distinc- 
tions, rites,  customs  and  prejudices,  by  which  men  of  dif- 
ferent nations  had  been  led  to  treat  each  other  as  enemies } 

*  As  this  Monument  will  appear  as  published  in  Boston,  it  may  be 
proper  to  preclude  every  suspicion  of  its  being  a  work  of  self-applause. 
For  tKis  purpose  only  it  is  deemed  proper  to  say,  that  the  writer  is 
neither  one  of  the  Benefactors,  nor  a  citizen  of  Boston.  Besides,  as 
noble  as  the  Mission  was  in  his  esteem,  he  does  not  regard  it  as  a  work 
of  supererogation,  but  such  an  expression  of  fraternal  sjoipathy,  as  d|,. 
ty  required.  The  object  of  the  Monument  is  not  flattery  ;  it  is  to  en- 
courage a  spirit  of  benevolent  entcrprize  as  a  substitute  for  iiiilitaiy  am- 
bition. 

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and  lo  unite  the  nations  in  the  bonds  of  mutual  affectioit 
and  amity,  were  among  the  benevolent  objecti  of  the  Mes- 
siah's mission.  While  the  christian  religion  was  intended 
to  reconcile  men  unto  God,  it  was  aho  designed  to  recon- 
cile them  to  one  another — to  subdue  their  lusts  and  pas- 
sions— to  inspire  them  with  sentiments  of  forbearance,  for- 
giveness, sympathy  and  benignity,  that  they  might  bear 
one  another's  burdens,  sedc  each  other's  welfare,  and  be. 
indeed  the  disciples  of  him,  who,  for  our  sakes,  became 
poor,  and  went  about  doing  good. 

The  christian  religion  unites  the  duty  and  happiness  of 
men.  The  mutual  exercise  of  brotherly  affection,  and  a 
cordial  interchange  of  beneficent  acts  and  expressions  of 
gratitude,  are  accompanied,  with  a  present  recompense  of 
delightful  emotions  ;  and  they  prepare  the  souls  of  men 
for  the  enjoyments  of  the  heavenly  world. 

How  greatly  then  do  they  mistake  the  road  to  happi- 
ness, who  indulge  the  passions  of  avarice,  envy,  malignity 
and  revenge.  By  this  they  exclude  from  their  own  bo- 
soms the  purest  enjoyments — take  up  with  such  pleasures 
as  they  can  possess  in  common  with  beasts  of  prey — become 
exposed  to  innumerable  vexations,  and  render  themselves 
unfit  for  the  society  of  benevolent  beings  in  a  future  state 
of  existence. 

The  present  age  is  said  to  be  *•  the  age  of  missions  j" 
ahd  all  benevolent  missions  have  a  two-fold  influence. 
They  tend  to  the  improvement  of  character  and  increase 
of  happiness  both  at  home  and  abroad  The  late  Mission 
from  Boston  to  St.  Johns,  for  the  relief  of  suffering  breth- 
ren, is  to  be  recorded  among  the  auspicious  occurrences  of 
our  times.  It  has,  we  doubt  not,  had  a  benign  effect  al- 
ready on  the  mindsofm.ny  thousands  of  our  fellow-beings 
in  different  states  and  countries.  To  extend  and  prolong 
its  blessed  influence  is  the  object  of  this  MemoriuK  The 
several  documents  relating  to  the  Mission  shall  now  be  ex- 
hibited. 


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Boston,  March  6,  1818. 
The  Committee  appointed  to  appropriate  the  funds  sub- 
scribed for  the  relief  of  the  sufferers  by  the  late  fires  at  St. 
Johnsj  N.  F.  congratulate  the  contributors  to  that  charity 
on  the  safe  return  of  the  brig  Messenger ^  and  beg  leave 
briefly  to  report,  for  their  information,  the  course  and 
highly  gratifying  result  of  their  proceedings,  by  the  exhi- 
bition of  the  several  documents  herewith  respectfully  sub- 
mitted. A  true  copy  of  record.  *" 

FRED.  W.  INGRAHAM, 

Secretary  to  Committee. 

[No.  I.]  Instructions  to  Capt.  Peterson.         ^ 

Boston,  December  27 1  1817. 
Capt.  George  Peterson, 

Sir — The  brig  Messenger,  of  which  you  are  master, 
having  been  chartered  for  the  purpose  of  conveying  a  car- 
go of  provisions  to  the  suffering  inhabitants  of  the  town  ot 
St.  Johns,  in  Newfoundland  ',  we  desire  that  you  will  pro- 
ceed with  all  possible  diligence  to  that  place,  and  that,  on 
your  arrival,  yoa  will  wait  on  His  Excellency  Francis 
Pickmore,  Commander  in  Chief  in  and  over  the  island, 
and  request  that  he  will  have  the  goodness  to  receive  the 
cargo  now  laden  ors  board  your  vessel,  and  dispose  of  the 
same  in  the  manner  pointed  out  in  our  respects  of  this  date, 
and  which  we  herewith  commit  to  your  charge. 

Every  article  on  board  of  the  Messenger  being  Ini  .ruled 
for  the  sole  purpose  of  relieving  the  wants  of  the  sufFerers 
by  the  late  conflagration,  unconnected  with  any  commer- 
cial or  interested  object,  we  have  reason  to  presume  that 
the  utmost  facility  will  be  afforded  to  you  in  the  execu- 
tion of  the  duties  which  you  have  assumed,  and  that  your 
vessel  will  be  promptly  discharged  and  enabled  to  return 
to  this  place,  or  pursue  such  other  course  as  the  interest  o\ 
the  owners  may  render  expedient. 


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It  is  particularly  enjoined  upon  you,  and  through'you 
upon  your  officers  and  crew,  that  no  article  intended  for 
•ale,  or  any  property  other  than  that  ^hich  is  laden  un- 
der our  direction,  and  expressed  in  your  bills  of  lading 
Ind  manifest,  be  taken  on  board  of  the  Messenger,  and 
that  in  all  your  proceedings  you  are  bound  to  avoid  the 
smallest  infringement  of  the  laws  of  the  c«untry  to  which 
you  are  destined. 

You  will  of  course  require  of  the  Governor  General  a 
certificate  of  the  delivery  of  your  cargo  at  the  port  of  St. 
Johns,  to  be  transmitted  to  your  owners  as  an  evidence  of 
the  fulfilment  of  their  engagements. 

We  wish  you  a  speedy  and  a  favourable  passage,  and 
that  you  may  be  rewarded  for  your  exertions  to  effect  the 
object  of  your  mission,  with  the  thanks  and  blessings  of 
<*  those  who  are  ready  to  perish." 

We  are,  in  behalf  of  the  subscribers  for  the  relief  of  the 

distressed  inhabitants  of  St   Johns,  your  obedient  servants, 

(Signed)       james  perkins, 

ARNOLD  WELLES, 
JONA.  AMORY, 
BENJAMIN  RICH, 
TRISTRAM  BARNARD, 
JOHN  HOUSTON, 


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Commit- 
tee. 


[No.  II.]  Letter  to  Gov.  PiCKMORE. 

To  His  Excellency  Francis  Pickmore,  Vice  Admiral  of  the 
White^  and  Governor  and  Commander  in  Chief  in  and  over 
the  Island  of  Newfoundland  and  its  Dependencies ^  and  Pre- 
sident of  the  Society  for  the  Improvement  of  the  poor  in  St. 
Johns. 

Sir— The  recrnt  conflagration  of  a  great  part  of  the 
town  of  St.  Johns,  at  a  period  of  the  year  when  it  may  be 
impracticable  to  obtain  relief  from  the  parent  country,  and 
the  calamity  which  must  necessarily  ensue  to  a  large  num- 
ber of  our  fellow  beings,  have  been  felt  in  this  town  with 
all  the  sympathy  which  they  arc  calculated  to  inspire. 


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A  subscription  for  the  purpoxc  of  affording  some  imme- 
Jiate  aid  to  the  sufferers,  has  been  consequently  opened  in 
this  place,  and  the  means  of  purchasing  a  quantity  of  suoh 
articles  s  are  considered  to  b^  best  adapted  to  the  exigen- 
cies of  the  moment,  have  been  readily  contributed  by  a 
number  of  its  inhabitants. 

The  American  brig  Messenger,  Capt.  Peterson,  having 
been  chartered  for  the  exclusive  object  of  carrying  this  of- 
fering to  St  Johns,  we  have  now  the  honour  to  enclose 
you  a  bill  of  lading  and  manifest  of  her  cargo,  consisting 
of  the  following  articles  : — 

174  barrels  Flour,  29  bbls.  and 

125  barrels  Meal,  963  bags 

11  tierces  Rice, 

tvhich,  in  behalf  of  the  contributors,  we  request  that  you 
will  have  the  goodness  to  receive,  and  cause  the  same  to  be 
distributed  among  the  sufferers  by  tha  late  conflagration, 
in  such  manner  and  in  such  proportions  as  their  respective 
circumstances  may  require. 

We  beg  leave  to  recommend  the  bearer,  Capt.  Peter- 
son, to  your  kind  protection,  and  pray  that  every  facility 
may  be  afforded  to  him  in  the  prompt  discharge  of  his 
cargo  and  the  despatch  of  his  vessel.  The  cause  of  hu- 
manity alone,  has  induced  him  to  undertake,  at  this  in- 
clement season,  a  voyage  which,  under  other  circumstan- 
ces, he  would  have  felt  himself  obliged  to  decline. 

We  have  the  honour  to  be,  with  all  due  consideration, 
your  Excellency's  obedient  humble  servants. 


f  Signed) 


JAMES  PERKINS, 
AKNOLD  WELLES, 
JONA.  AMORYjjr. 
BENJAMIN  RICH, 
TRISTRAM  BARNARD, 
JOHN  HOUSTON, 

Boston,  Dec.  27,  1817. 


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[No.  HI.]  Answer  of  Oov   Pickmore. 

I'ort  TowHshtnJf  St.  Jehfis^  Nftvfjund/and, 
•JOtii  January,  1818. 

Gentlemen — I  have  the  honour  to  acknowledge  the 
receipt  of  your  letter  of  the  27th  ult.  acquainting  me  that 
a  subscription  had  been  entered  into  at  Boston  for  the 
purpose  of  afibrding  immediate  aid  to  the  suffereri  by  the 
recent  conflagrations  at  St-  Johns,  and  that  a  cargo  of  such 
articles  as  were  considered  best  adapted  to  the  exigencies 
of  the  moment  had  been  purchased  and  forwarded  by  the 
American  brig  Messenger,  Capt.  I'etrrson,  consigned  to 
me  as  President  of  the  Society  for  improving  the  condition 
of  the  poor  of  St.  Johns. 

I  have  the  satisfaction  to  acquaint  you  that  the  Messen- 
ger arrived  here  on  the  evening  of  the  16th  inst,  and  hav- 
ing discharged  the  cargo  agreeably  to  the  bill  of  lading,  is 
now  ready  to  return  to  Boston. 

I  beg  to  assure  the  Committee  that  I  shall  use  my  best 
endeavours  in  the  distribution  of  this  bounty  to  fulfil  their 
benevolent  intentions  ;  but  I  confess  myself  unable  to  ex- 
press, in  adequate  terms,  on  the  part  of  those  who?e  relief 
has  been  the  object  of  the  humane  consideration  of  the  in- 
habitants of  Boston,  the  feelings  which  their  generous  act 
has  excited.  Individually,  I  desire  to  offer  my  warmest  ac- 
knowledgments to  them  }  and  .shall  not  fail  to  communi- 
cate to  His  Majesty's  Government  this  spontaneous  act  of 
liberality,  which  in  its  effects  I  trust  will  tend  to  increase 
and  cement  more  firmly  the  relations  of  friendship  which 
now  so  happily  subsists  between  the  two  nations. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be,  Gentlemen,  your  most  obedi- 
ent humble  servant,  FRANCIS  PICKMORE, 
Vice-Admirali  and  Governor  of  Newfoundland . 

To  James.  Perkins,  Arnold  Welles,  Jona.  Amory,  jun. 
Benjamin  Rich,  Tristram  Barnard  i<.  Joim  Hous- 

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[No.  IV.]  Resolutions  and  Adoress  of  the  Inhabitant* 

of  St-  Johns. 

St,  Johns,  Jan  20,  1818. 

At  a  very  numerous  and  respectable  meeting  of  the  In- 
habitants of  this  Town,  called  by  public  advertisement  thi.s 
dayi  at  1  o'clock,  it  was 

Rejohed,  That  Mr.  Hoyles  be  called  to  the  Chair. 

That  an  Address  of  thanks  be  drawn  up  in  the  most  af- 
fectionate and  grateful  terms,  as  expressive  of  the  feelings 
of  this  Meeting,  and  that  this  Address  be  despatched  by  the 
brig  Messenger,  Capt.  Peterson,  to  the  Committee  In 
Boston,  by  whose  benevolence  and  zeal,  timely  supplies 
have  been  brought  to  this  distressed  and  unfortunate  Town, 

That  Messrs.  Sabine,  Cubit,  Haire,  Job,  and  George 
Lilly,  be  requested  to  draw  up  the  Address  of  Thankg, 
and  present  it  for  the  approbation  of  the  Meeting. 

That  the  Address  now  read,  be  approved  and  received. 

That  the  Thanks  of  this  Meeting  be  most  respectfully 
addressed  to  Capt.  Peterson,  of  the  brig  Messenger,  and 
to  his  hardy  and  persevering  Crew,  for  their  attempting 
such  a  voyage  at  this  severe  season  of  the  year. 

That  the  five  Gentlemen  who  framed  the  Address,  do, 
with  the  Chairman,  wait  on  Capt.  Peterson,  with  the 
Thanks  of  the  Meeting  and  a  copy  of  the  Resolutions. 

That  the  Thanks  of  this  meeting  be  given  to  the  five 
Gentlemen  who  formed  the  Address. 

That  these  Resolutions  and  the  Address  be  published  in 
the  Newfoundland  Royal  Gazette  and  rhv  Mercantile  Jour- 
nal— as  al?o  in  the  London  Coi'-jpr  anu  Morning  Chron- 
'cle.  N.  W.  HOYLES,   Chairman . 


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ADDRESS 

To  the  Cuinmittee  appointed  l>y  the  Citizens  of  Boston f  fir  the 
Relief  of  the  Sufferers  by  the  two  late  calamitous  Fires  in 
St.  Johns,  Newfoundland. 

Gentlemen — The  nature  of  your  benefaction  is  such 
as  to  excite  no  common  feelings  of  gratitude  in  our  minds' 
— and  to  express,  so  far  as  we  are  able,  the  emotions  which 
we  feel  i  the  purport  of  our  present  Address.  We  are 
aware  that  it  is  the  peculiar  nature  of  Christian  benevolence, 
as  well  to  shrink  from  praise,  as  to  avoid  ostentation-— but 
such  are  our  feelings,  that  we  cannot  express  our  thanks  e- 
ven  to  those  to  whom  they  are  so  justly  due,  without  al- 
lowing ourselves  to  glance  at  those  reasons  which  induce 
us  thus  to  act- 
By  awful  events  we  are  plunged  into  the  deepest  dis- 
tress. Our  houses  were  destroyed — our  provisions,  and 
great  part  of  our  furniture  and  clothes,  consumed.  In  the 
general  calamities  of  life,  it  oft^n  happens  that  the  acute- 
ness  of  feeling  is  caused  by  the  suddenness  of  the  shock — 
and  that  mental  anguish  often  lessens,  as  time  enables  us  ta 
discover  that  we  had  not  fallen  so  deeply  as  we  imagined. 
Not  so  in  the  present  instance.  The  full  extent  of  our  mis- 
ery, was  too  great  to  be  at  once  comprehended  by  our 
minds.  We  only  began  to  see  the  horrors  of  our  .♦ituaiion 
when  the  ilrst  violence  of  grief  began  tosubside.  We  saw 
ourselves  surrounded  by  miseries  *,  and  other  miseries  rap- 
idly approaching — Our  sun  had  set  in  clouds  and  dark- 
ness and  tempest  were  before  us. — We  had  every  reason 
to  fear,  that  to  the  severities  of  winter,  we  should  have  to 
add,  scarcity  of  Provisions — Providentially,  however,  our 
fears  have,  in  this  respect,  been  dissipated  by  the  arrval 
of  supplies  in  our  harbour. — We  mention  this,  because  we 
know  that  such  information  will  give  you  pleasure — but 
when  we  view  your  generosity,  we  view  it,  not  so  much 
in  connexion  with  those  circumstances  in  which  by  a  kind 
Providence  we  are  actually  placed,  as  with  those  in  which 


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we  expected  to  have  been  placed,  and  as  placed  in  which, 
your  kindness  considered  us — We  regard  your  supplies 
according  to  the  benevolent  feelings  which  actuated  you  in 
sending  them — We  would  consider  them  aa  coming  to  as 
jn  the  depth  of  winter,  and  in  the  midst  of  famine. 

You. will  not  from  what  we  have  said,  conteive  that  we 
are  not  distressed — the  supplies  to  whJch  we  have  alluded, 
have  indeed  removed  th€  fears  of  absolute  famine,  but 
they  do  not  afFord  us  the  means  of  rebuilding  our  houses  ; 
or  replacing  our  furniture,  our  clothes,  our  fuel — or  even 
our  provision.  It  is  here  that  your  bounty  appears  as  tru- 
ly valuable  ;  it  removes  cur  fears — it  does  more— it  sup- 
plies our  immediate  wants  y  and  by  thus  affording  us  re- 
lief, contributes  towards  restoring  us  to  our  former  stand- 
ing in  Society. 

You  heard  of  our  distress :  you  pitied  us  ■,  you  relieved 
us ;  we  owe  you  our  most  gri»teful  acknowledgments  j  but 
how  shall  we  express  our  feelings  ?  Had  your  kindnej^s 
been  less,  we  might  have  been  able  to  say  more ;  but  when 
we  regard  your  bounty  ;  when  we  consider  all  circum- 
stances under  which  it  has  been  given — the  feelings  in 
which  the  measure  originated — and  the  manner  in  which 
it  has  been  executed,  we  feel  ourselves  at  a  loss  for  word?. 
Our  hearts  are  full.  We  thank  you — most  sincerely  and 
cordially  do  we  thank  you.  Allow  us  to  express  our  most 
earnest  wishes  for  your  welfare.  May  taat  Being  whose 
f  xaniplc  you  have  imitated,  whose  commands  you  have  o- 
Ijeyed — and  whose  bounty  you  have  been  instrumental  in 
conveying,  be,-  in  prosperity  or  adversity  alike  your  friend. 
Signed  in  the  name  and  on  behalf  of  the  Meeting. 

N.  W.  HOYLES,  a',vnnr?r 

^t.  Johns,  ?>0:h  Jan.  18!S. 


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10 


[1^0.  v.]  Resolutions  of  the  Grand  Jury  of  St.  Johns. 
4  Jury-Roow,  St.  Johns^  Neivfoundland. 


*  January  20,  181S. 
Gentlemen — "We,  the  Grand  Jurors  of  this  town,  im- 
pressed with  the  highest  sense  of  gratitude  toward  the  good 
Citizens  of  Boston,  for  the  very  handsome,  liberal,  and 
disinterested  manner  in  which  they  came  forward  to  the 
assistance  of  our  fellow  townsmen,  at  a  time  when  the  mo- 
tives which  induced  them  to  it  must  have  emanated  solely 
from  the  purest  spirit  of  philanthropy,  the  true  character- 
istic of  all  that  is  great  and  good  in  the  human  mind  ; 
should  think  ourselves  unworthy  of  the  situation  we  hold 
in  this  community,  if  we  suffered  the  Messenger  of  their 
truly  valued  donation,  to  return  to  them  without  our  ex- 
pressing our  sincere  acknowledgments  for  their  generous 
efforts  towards  our  relief. 

We,  therefore,  Gentlemen,  entreat  that  you  will  be 
pleased  to  make  our  thanks  acceptable,  and  to  assure  them, 
that  the  arrival  of  the  brig  Messenger  will  ever  be  regarded 
by  us  as  one  of  the  most  gratifying  objects  which  ever  en- 
tered this  port,  and  we  trust  the  recollection  of  their  kind- 
ness will  never  be  obliterated  from  our  minds. 

We  sincerely  pray  that  they  may  ever  remain  strangers 
to  such  calamities  as  have  visited  our  unfortunate  town, 
and  that  their  humanity  may  meet  with  that  reward  which 
the  Giver  of  all  good  alone  can  bestow. 

We  have  the  honour  to  remain,  gen  lemen,  your  mos^ 
truly  obliged  and  grateful  servants, 

NEWMAN  W.  HOYLES,  Foreman. 
James  Furgus,  Francis  Kenny, 

John  Boyd,  James  Clift, 

Donald  H.  McCalman,     Joseph  Gill, 
Wm.  MacAllastar, 


Wm.  Bransconibe, 
James  Murphy, 
Robert  Brown, 
John  Dowsley, 
Alexander  Hain, ' 


George  Niven, 
John  Niven, 
Benj.  Bowing, 
Patrick  Morris, 
Philip  Becnlen, 
Peter  Lemissuiev 


I'o  James  Perkins,  &c.&c.  CommHteef  ^c. 


I. 


11 


St.  Johns. 

to,  181S. 
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,  your  mosf 

Foreman. 


[No.  VI.]  Rpio;     'IONS  and  Address  of  the  Benevolent 

Irish  Society. 

St.  Johns  Jan.  27. 

A  Special  Meeting  of  the  Benevolent  Irish  Society 
being  called,  for  the  purpose  of  expressing  its  sentiments 
on  the  recent  arrival  of  the  brig  Messenger,  Capt  Peter- 
son, with  a  cargo  of  provisions,  which  the  humanity  of  the 
citizens  of  Boston  had  despatched  as  a  present  for  the  suf- 
ferers by  the  calamitous  fires  of  the  direful  7th  and  21sf. 
November  last, 

Mr.  Henry  O'Shea,  Vice  President,  in  the  Chair. 

The  follo^ving  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted. 

Resolved^  That  we  hail  with  gratitude  and  admiration 
this  -nstance  of  extraordinary  benevolence. 

Resolved^  That  as  our  Society  has  been  planned  and 
formed  upon  principles  of  universal  Charity  and  Benevo- 
lence, we  feel  it  an  indispensable  duty  we  owe  to  humani- 
ty and  the  subject  under  consideration,  to  manifest,  in  a 
peculiar  manner,  the  high  sense  we  entertain  of  this  exalt- 
ed and  praise-worthy  donation  from  the  citizens  of  Boston. 

Resolved,  That  in  all  our  sufferings  and  deprivations, 
there  is  a  glory  and  a  prijde  attached  to  them  in  the  re- 
flection that  human  feeling  and  commiseration  are  on  the 
alert  to  alleviate  our  pangs — and  this  by  people  separated 
from  us  by  an  immense  expanse  of  water,  and  that  they 
have  taken  prompt  and  effectual  measures  for  our  relief, 
through  their  godlike  feeling  and  sympathy. 

Resolvedy  That  this  unexampled  act  of  humanity  froni 
the  citizens  of  Boston  towards  the  sufferers  pf  this  town 
from  the  devastating  fires  of  the  7th  and  21st  November 
last,  is  of  such  a  character,  that  we  cannot  command  lan- 
guage or  adopt  an  adequate  mode  of  expressing  a  due 
sense  of  our  feelings  on  the  occasion,  or  the  obligations  wo 
are  placed  under. 

Resolvedy  That  in  their  entering  so  promptly  into  the 
spirit  of  our  wants  and  miserable  situation,  and  so  speedik 
and  unsolicitedly,  sending  us  succour,  was  reviving  tlir 
priitine  age  of  true  Christianity. 

Resolved,  That  in  their  doing  that,  they  have  evincevl 
more  genuine  philantlyopy,  than  we  have  exper'enr"i' 
■>r  witnessed  elsewhere'. 


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jtesoivedy  That  although  many  of  this  Society  have  losi 
their  all— still  the  reflection  of  living  in  an  era  that  has 
produced  such  an  instance  of  liberality  and  fellow-feeling, 
ha«  assuaped  their  sorrow,  and  has  caused  them  to  forget 
the  greatest  part  of  their  sufferings. 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  meeting  be  given  to 
Capt.  Peterson,  of  the  brig  Messenger,  and  his  crew,  and 
that  the  be.n  and  warmest  wishes  of  this  Society  will  always 

attend  them. 

Resolved,  That  the  Resolutions  and  Address  be  printed 
in  the  Mercantile  Jotirnnl  and  Ro^al  Gazette,  and  in  one 
London,  one  Edinburgh  and  one  Dublin  paper. 

Rtsolved,  That  in  the  lamented  absence  of  our  highly 
esteemed  and  worthy  President,  James  Macbriar,  Esq.  the 
Vice  President,  fir.^t'and  second  Assistant  Treasurers,  and 
Secretary,  be  appointed  to  draw  up  an  Address,  fully  ex- 
pre.-slve  of  our  feelings,  if  possible,  to  the  citizens  of  Bos- 
ton, for  their  late  distinguished  mark  of  humanity  j  and 
that  the  ifaid  Address  and  Resolutions  entered  into  this 
day,  at  our  Special  Meeting,  be  transmitted  with  the  great- 
est speed,  to  the  Committee  appointed  in  Boston  for  the 
purpose  of  carrying  their  beneficent  object   into  execution, 

HENRY  O'SHEA,  C/jainnan. 


ADDRESS 

Oft/be  abfve  Society  to  the  Committee  of  the  Boston  Zubscrihtrs. 

St.  Johns,  Jan.  22,  1818. 

"The  breast  whifih  happiness  bestows, 
Reflected  happiness  shall  blcps,'" 

Gentlemen — The  Editor  of  one  of  your  Papers  under 
date  ji2d  Dec.  last,  introduced  an  article  on  the  subject  of 
our  late  misfortunes  in  this  town,  (which  does  honour  to 
the  heart  that  dictated  it,)  ajid  very  aptly  and  appropriate- 
iy  headed  the  same  with  the  above  beautiful  quotation, 
and  we  rejoice  in  the  anticipation  that  you  must  and  can- 
not help  feeling  the  true  spirit  of  that  promised  happiness 
in  a  tenfold  degree,  because  the  happiness  contemplate  J  by 
the  Poet  must  be  secure,  as  your  favor  has  been  conferred 
on  men  alive  and  sensible,  to  the  highest  pitch  cf  your 
god-liice  benefaction. 

Pursuant  to    the  last  ReF.olntion   at  the  above  Meeting, 
•A'shiM-  now  the  honour  of  cnclofing  vc.i  the  llctelution:; 


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Subscribtrs. 
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passed,  and  we  feel  a  particular  delight  and  pleasure  in  as- 
luring  you  that  the  Resolutions  therein  stated,  were  re- 
ceived and  adopted  with  the  genuine  feelings  worthy  of 
men  receiving  favors,  and  that  the  most  copious  language 
would  apfjear  mute  in  attempting  to  describe  their  feelings. 

We  must  confess  that  on  many  occasions  we  had  to  re- 
gret our  want  of  ability  to  do  justice  to  our  opinions  on  many 
Interesting  topics,  but  never  in  our  lives  have  wc  felt  the 
force  6f  our  deficiency  as  upon  the  one  that  your  benevo- 
lence and  humanity  have  taxed  us  with. 

Gentlemen,  what  an  extensive  field  your  philanthropy 
has  opened  for  panegyric  and  praise. 

Had  we  the  power  to  command  the  pen  or  talents  of 
our  countrymen,  Goldsmith  and  Phillips,  your  sympathy 
and  commiseration  for  tiys  ill-fated  community  should  be 
blazoned  and  portrayed  to  make  a  splendid  appearance  in 
the  four  quarters  of  the  Globe  ;  but  in  the  absence  of  such 
means  to  promulgate  your  unprecedented  act  of  humanity, 
we  trust  it  will  not  fail  of  circulating  with  that  increasing 
credit  and  honour  to  you  as  your  merits  in  the  case  are  so 
justly  entitled  to.  Your  act  is  of  that  nature  that  the  De- 
ity must  view  and  behold  with  an  all-approving  eye,  com- 
placency and  delight,  to  witness  the  exercise  of  one  of  his 
divine  attributes  in  such  plenitude  of  purity  and  excel- 
lence— an  act  that  redounds  to  the  everlasting  honour  of 
those  Gentlemen  who  so  gloriously  embarked  in  it ;  and  it 
is  the  universal  sentiment  in  this  Community — that  never 
was  one  performed  that  is  more  creditable  to  human  na- 
ture. We  have  suffered  much,  and  many  of  us  have  lost 
our  all  by  the  late  conflagrations.  These  sacrifices  are  now 
in  some  degree  ameliorated  by  the  pleasing  reflection  that 
they  have  excited  and  elicited  such  generous  feelings  and 
emotions  in  the  breasts  of  a  brave  and  humane  people,  and 
we  are  almost  tempted  to  say,  that  it  is  necegsary  such  cau- 
ses should  happen  once  in  an  age,  to  alTord  the  glorious  op- 
portunity of  bringing  into  action  the  noble  effects  they 
have  produced  from  you. 

If  the  fond  affections,  the  heart  felt  obligations  and  ac- 
knowledgments of  a  grateful  people  can  have  suificient 
weight  in  the  scale  of  your  bounty,  you  are  rich  indeed  in 
i^he  returns  they  make. 

The  recollections  of  your  generosity  sliall  be  embalmed 
'n  our  min''-' ;in'' f"^t'^;Tib?i'l   in   our  li^art.',    tl-ifv  shall  be 


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cAicfully  instilled  into  the  minds  of  our  Children  with  .ui 
inviolable  injunction  to  be  transmitted  with  undiminished 
lustre  to  our  latest  posterity. 

Henry  O'Shea,  Fice  President  of  the 

Benevolent  Irish  Society. 
Patrick  Doyle,  1st  Asst. 
Patrick  Morris,  2d  Asst. 
Taomas  Meagher,  Jim.  Treasurer. 
John  Dowsley,  Secretary.  • 

To  the  Committee  appointed  by  the  Citizens  of  Bos- 
ton, for  the  Relief  of  the  Sufferers  by  the  two  late 
calamitous  Fires  in  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland. 

TRIBUTE  TO  CAPT.  PETERSON. 

Mr.  James  Milledge,  of  this  town,  has  received  the  di- 
rection of  a  General  Meeting  of  the  Citizens  of  St.  Joims, 
relative  to  the  presenting  a  Piece  of  Plate,  of  the  value  of 
twenty-five  guineas,  to  Capt.  Peterson  ;  with  the  fol- 
lowing In.«cription. 

"  From  the  Inhabitants  of  St.  Jchnsy  Neivfoundlandy  to 
(■apt.  George  Peterson,  as  a  Memorial  of  re'pect  atid  grat- 
itude for  bis  havingf  at  a  severe  season  oj  the  year,  brought 
down  gratuitous  supplies  fr-om  the  benevolent  Citizens  of  Bos- 
ton for  the  relief  of  the  Sufferers  Iry  the  Fires  of  the  1th  and 
list  of  November^  1S17. 


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After  perusing  these  admirable  documents,  the  reader 
niay  Tnd  it  difficult  to  say,  on  which  part  there  has  been 
'he  greater  manife^tation  of  just  and  noble  sentiment  and 
feeling,  or  the  greater  share  of  mental  gratification — 
whether  on  the  part  of  the  Benefactors  in  bestowing  their 
bounty  and  in  receiving  the  lostimonies  of  unutterable 
^:;ratitude — or  on  the  part  of  their  brethren  at  St.  Johns, 
:n  receiving  the  unexpected  donations  and  in  pouring  out 
their  thanksgivings  to  the  Divine  Benefactor  and  to  the 
instruments  which  he  had  employed  in  dispensing  his  gift?. 
On  the  principle  that  "  it  is  more  blessed  to  give  than  to 
i  eceive,"  it  may  seem  that  the  Donors  must  have  had  the 
greater  share  of  enjoyment.  But  there  has  also  been  a 
..ivtNr,  on  the  part  of  the  receivers  which  could  not  fail  tc 


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f^vftQizxi  the  cup  of  affliction  and  to  augment  their  ovrn 
happiness.  For  in  attempting  to  express  their  gratitude 
(hey  appear  to  have  given  their  hearts  to  supply  the  defect 
of  language. 

Such  correspondent  expressions  of  sympathy,  benefi- 
cence and  gratitude,  ennoble  the  human  character,  increase 
the  aggregate  of  happiness,  and  become  bands  of  friend- 
ship and  brotherhood.  In  the  exercise  of  such  affections 
and  endearments,  men  appear  what  they  ought  ever  to  be  ; 
and  the  universal  diffusion  of  such  .sentiments  and  feelings 
would  render  this  world  a  paradise. 

Such  a  Mission  deserves  a  Monument  of  a  very  different 
description  from  what  ought  to  be  erected  as  Memorials  of 
the  exploits  of  bloodstained  Warriors.  To  the  reproach  of 
our  species,  murderous  enterprizes  have  hitherto  been  the 
principal  subjects  of  eulogy.  For  the  honour  and  happi- 
ness of  our  race,  we  hope  that  a  remedy  will  be  found  for 
this  mental  disease.  Indeed  we  believe  that  many  who 
were  formerly  affected  with  it  have  been  thoroughly  cured, 
and  that  many  others  are  in  a  convalescent  state.  A  hope 
that  the  Mission  to  St.  Johns  might  be  made  useful  as  an 
antidote  to  a  malady  so  fatal,  was  among  the  inducements 
to  attempt  this  Monument. 

In  preparing  for  the  Mission,  the  benevolent  Donori, 
and  Capt.  Peterson,  the  Missionary,  could  not  but  recol- 
lect the  recent  state  of  things  when  $uch  a  Mis>'ion  of" 
charity  to  sufferers  in  St.  Johns,  -would  have  exposed  all 
who  were  concerned  in  it  to  the  severe  penalties  for  trea- 
son ;  a  state  too,  in  which  to  have  inflicted  as  great  calam- 
ities on  the  inhabitants  of  St.  Johns  as  they  suffered  by  fire, 
or  to  liave  taken  the  advantage  of  such  a  scene  of  confu- 
sion and  distress,  to  add  to  the  afilictions  of  that  people, 
by  storming  and  ravaging  the  town,  would  have  been  re 
garded  ^^''■^  erlorinr^  e^■^l'^!^  nn'^  rtconUng to  the  u?3gc?  o: 
wa'-. 


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Nor  was  the  icconl  state  of  things  obliterated  from  the 
memories  of  our  brethren  at  St.  Johns,  when  they  receiv- 
ed the  unexpected  supplies  from  Boston,  nor  when  they 
poured  forth  their  grateful  acknowledgements. 

Governor  Pickmore  evidently  had  the  late  calamitous 
war  in  view  when  he  said — «<  Individually,  I  desire  to  of- 
fer my  warmest  acknowledgments  to  them  ;  and  shall  not 
fail  to  communicate  to  His  Majesty's  Government  this 
spontaneous  act  of  liberality,  which  in  its  effects,  I  trust, 
will  tend  to  increase  and  cement  more  firmly  the  relations 
of  friendship  which  now  so  happily  subsist  between  the 
two  nations." 

This  anticipation  of  pacific  effects  was  founded  on  the 
well  known  tendency  of  that  charity  which  seekcth  not 
her  own,  or  that  Benevolence  which  stretches  forth  the 
hand  to  aid  and  comfort  the  children  of  sorrow,  and  goes  a- 
bout  doing  good.  The  proper  expressions  of  sympathy 
and  commiseration,  from  one  community  towards  sufferers 
in  another,  and  proper  returns  of  gratitude,  have  a  power- 
ful influence  to  eradicate  those  local  prejudices  which  en- 
danger public  tranquillity — and  also  to  excite  mutual  love 
and  esteem,  the  surest  pledges  of  peace.  How  little  of  the 
property  which  has  been  expended  and  destroyed  in  the 
wrirs  of  Christendom,  would  have  been  requisite  to  pre- 
.«erve  peace,  had  it  been  appropriated  to  reciprocal  works  of 
charity  and  beneficence  between  the  different  nations  ?  A 
thousandth  part  would  probably  have  been  sufficient  to 
preclude  every  war  which  has  occurred  within  a  thoufand 
years,  and  to  prevent  the  military  murder  of  as  many  hu- 
man beings  as  are  now  alive  in  Europe  and  America.  How 
then  must  war-makers  feci,  when  their  sins  shall  be  set  in 
order  before  them ! 

While  the  present  friendly  dispoi^itions  shall  continue 
between  the  inhabitants  of  Boston  and  St,  Johns,  how  would 
their  feelings  revolt,  should  they  be  required  by  their  res- 
pective governments  to  meet  each    other  as  enemies  in  a 


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Eeld  of  battle  !  How  little  it  would  seem  to  them  like  a 
"field  of  glory  !"  Suppose  then,  that  in  the  course  of  the 
present  year,  and  prior  to  any  cause  of  offence  between 
these  towns,  the  two  governments  should  again  make  war } 
suppose  further  that  during  the  war — say  next  winter — the 
people  of  Boston  should  be  brought  into  great  distress  by 
a  conflagration  of  half  the  buildings  in  the  town  ;  that  on 
hearing  of  this  calamity,  a  British  fleet  should  be  ordered 
to  take  advantage  of  the  distress  in  Boston  and  sack  the 
town;  that  the  late  sufferers  in  St.  Johns  should  be  re- 
quired to  take  an  active  part  in  the  expedition,  and  con>e 
to  Boston— and  then,  in  obedience  to  their  commanders, 
should  actually  destroy  their  recent  Benefactors  j  what 
name  must  justice,  benevolence  and  humanity  give  to  such 
conduct ! 

But  as  shocking  as  such  things  may  now  appear  to  the 
parties,  there  is  nothing  comprised  in  the  picture,  which  ia 
at  all  inconsistent  with  the  laws  and  usages  of  modern  war- 
fare ;  nothing  more  unjust  or  antichristian,  than  much  of 
the  conduct  in  every  war  between  neighbouring  tfiitions — 
and,  we  may  add,  nothing  worse  than  what  will  probably 
again  occur  between  the  United  States  and  the  British 
Provinces,  unless  something  should  be  done  to  open  the 
eyes  of  the  two  nations,  and  to  destroy  the  popularity  of  war. 

Can  it  then  be  improper  for  people  of  every  class  and  of 
every  country,  to  attend  to  the  following  inquiries  : — Is  it 
ueasonable  to  suppose  that  the  rulers  of  a  nation  have  au- 
thority to  suspend  at  pleasure  the  requirements  and  prohi- 
bitions of  Heaven,  either  in  relation  to  themselves  or  their 
subjects  ?  Can  they,  by  a  vote,  absolve  moral  beings  from 
their  obligations  to  « love  one  another  ?"  Can  people 
make  war  and  multiply  murders  in  the  exercise  of  that  love 
which  workcth  no  ill  to  its  neighbour,  and  without  which 
all  our  pretensions  to  piety  and  goodness  are  vain  ?  What 
delusion  can  be  more  absurd  or  more  fatal,  than  to  suppc?e 
that  fallible,  and  cvcfn  wicked  rulers  of  one  nation  car 
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nuke  it  the  duty  of  their  subjects  to  hate  and  murder  in- 
nocent brethren  of  another  country  ?  Can  a  greater  in- 
sult be  offered  to  the  understanding  of  an  intelligent  chris- 
tian than  to  tell  him  that  a  war  manifesto  can  so  fa?  super» 
sede  the  Divine  authority,  as  to  make  it  his  duty  to  act  the 
part  of  a  mortal  enemy  tovrards  innocent  brethren,  to  re- 
venge the  wrong  of  their  guilty  ruler,  or  to  gratify  the 
ambition  of  his  own  government  i 

May  wc  not  safely  afllrm,  that  no  ruler  of  one  nation 
has  any  more  right  to  authorise  his  subjects  to  make  war  on 
the  innocent  people  of  another  nation,  than  he  has  to  arm 
the  innocent  in  his  own  dominions,  and  require  them  to 
murder  one  another  ?  And  if  a  subject  is  not  bound  to 
obey  such  a  murderous  mandate  in  the  latter  case,  why 
should  he  be  in  the  former  ?  In  both  cases  it  would  be 
his  duty  to  obey  God  rather  than  man,  and  to  expose  him- 
self to  the  vengeance  of  an  unjust  ruler,  rather  than  to  de- 
file his  hands  with  the  blood  of  his  brethren. 

The  same  God  who  has  required  obedience  to  the  mag- 
istrate, has  ali-o  required  children  to  obey  their  parents  j 
nor  has  the  magistrate  any  more  rightful  authority  over  the 
subject,  than  the  parent  has  over  the  child.  What  then 
is  the  duty  of  a  son,  twenty  years  of  age,  if  his  father  re- 
quires him  to  murder  his  neighbour's  children,  to  revenge 
some  wrong  done  by  their  father  ?  Will  any  ruler  say, 
that  it  is  the  duty  of  the  son  to  obey  such  an  inhuman 
command  ?  No,  says  the  ruler,  because  the  father's  com- 
mand is  manifestly  unjust  and  contrary  to  the  laws  of  the 
state.  Admit  such  reasoning  to  be  good,  and  what  is  the 
inference  ?  It  is  this,  that  a  murderous  command  of  a  ru- 
ler should  tiot  be  obeyed,  because  it  is  clearly  unjust  and 
contrary  to  the  command  of  the  Supreme  Being—"  Thou 

SHALT  DO  NO  MURPER.' 


»  * 


"^  In  making  war,  <l.c  following  principles  arc  a'^suined  :  — - 
First.  That  the  decree  ol'  an   earthly   ruler  can   absolve.  Iv.s  suljjcclf 
Voni  th'.ir  ubligaticns  (o   obey   tlic  command — "  Thou  shalt  love  t!)v 


But  what  shall 
iL:ommands  him  to 
should  treat  his  fa 
heart,  to  sooth  his 
of  his  requirement 
and  the  laws  of  (j 
not  hearken  to  re. 
tion,  the  son  may 
father  to  be  confir 
lumself."  But  if 
ger,  nor  escape  fr 
he  should  prefer 
his  own  in  the  blo< 
for  a  moment  indi 
mand  will  absolve 
of  innocent  brethn 

neiLiibour  us  tlijst  ll." 
fogate  a  Sapnmacy  ov 
ordinate  to  their  own  : 

frrcoud.  Tliat  >ubie( 
do  in  tiuie  of  war,  il'  dc 
pie  the  most  vile  and  n 
the  Jiope  ol'appluui-e  fr 

Tliird.  That  the  acg 
guilt  and  uiiscry  whici 
is  very  sure  to  jii  rs\iadi 
cted  to  the  work  of  hu 
punity  but  the  hope  -of 

Fourlii.  Thai  it  is  jus 
j'or  the  crimes  of  a  ruki 
mote  from  the  governm 
•jven  a  pretext  of  wroni 
Iheir  sovereign  will  be  pi 
t!ie  injuries  done  to  his 

These  are  sonic  o,f  tli 
ed  by  men  prol'essiug  U 
Lot  these  principles  bH( 
lU  intjuiry  be  instituted 
esaiiy  piinciitlcj  of  roi 
which  ^vill  allbi'd  mul'c 
2en'.'r.iti'ji!s  '•• 


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itid  murder  in- 
n  a  greater  in- 
itelligent  chris-^ 
n  so  far  super- 
duty  to  act  the 
trethren, to  re- 
to  gratify  the 

of  one  nation 
0  make  war  on 

he  has  to  arm 
tquire  them  to 

not  bound  to 
itter  case,  why 
es  it  would  be 
to  expose  him- 
xer  than  to  de- 

• 

ce  to  the  mag- 

their  parents ; 

hority  over  the 

What  then 

his  father  re- 

cn, to  revenge 

any  ruler  say, 

an  inhuman 

father's  com- 
ic laws  of  the 
id  what  is  the 
mand  of  a  ru- 

y  unjust  and 
ing — "  Thou 


•olvi;  li;!j  siibjccl.' 
lU  sluilt  love  thv 


But  what  shall  the  ton  do  when  his  fafher  positively 
commands  him  to  murder  a  neighbour's  children  ?  He 
should  treat  his  father  kindly,  an4  endeavor  to  soften  his 
heart,  to  sooth  his  passions,  and  to  show  him  the  injustice 
of  his  requirement — its  contrariety  to  the  laws  of  the  «tate 
and  the  laws  of  God.  If  the  parent,  in  such  a  case,  will 
not  hearken  to  reason,  but  persists  in  his  merciless  injunc- 
tion, the  son  may  either  escape  for  his  life,  or  cause  hii; 
father  to  be  confined  as  a  madman,  till  he  shall  "  come  to 
Iximself."  But  if  the  son  can  neither  pacify  his  father's  an- 
ger, nor  escape  from  him,  nor  causie  him  to  be  confined, 
he  should  prefer  dying  by  a  parent's  hands  to  embruing 
his  own  in  the  blood  of  his  neighbours.  Nor  should  he 
for  a  moment  indulge  the  thought,  that  his  father's  com- 
mand wUl  absolve  him  froni  guilt  in  shedding  the  blood 
of  innocent  brethren  and  sisters, 

iieiL-iibour  us  tliyfelf."  But  do  not  ru!<.;rs  wl)o  assume  tliis  principle  ar- 
fogate  a  Supremacy  over  tin.  bii'RKMii  Bkixg,  and  make  his  laws  sub- 
ordinate fo  thtir  uwn  ? 

Jricond.  Tliat  ^ubit•cts  are  not  responsible  for  the  injuries  which  the^ 
do  in  time  oC  war,  if  done  by  the  orders  of  their  rulers.  On  this  prinei 
pic  (ho  most  vile  and  malignant  )»as.-iions  of  soldiers  may  be  indulged,  in 
the  hope  of  applause  from  men,  and  impunity  at  the  bar  of  God. 

'I'hird.  That  (he  aggressor  in  war  is  answerable  for  all  the  bloodshed, 
i;uilt  and  misery  which  result  from  the  eonlest.  Thi;n,  as  each  party 
is  very  sure  to  persuade  itself  that  the  other  is  the  agt,re.-5Sor,  butli  piu- 
eeed  to  the  work  of  havoc  and  murder,  not  only  with  the  hope  of  im- 
punity but  the  hope-of  renowu  and  ble^siclnes^. 

Fourth.  That  it  is  just  to  inllict  vengeance  and  slaughter  on  subjects 
for  the  crimes  of  a  ruler.  On  tiiis  principle,  provinces  and  islands,  re- 
mote from  the  government  to  which  they  belong,  are  invaded,  without 
■  ven  a  pretext  of  wrong  on  the  part  of  the  inhabiiantn,  or  any  hope  that 
their  sovereign  will  be  personally  chastised  or  all'eoteU,  otherwise  (huu  by 
'.he  injuries  done  to  his  innocent  subjecjts. 

These  are  some  o,f  the  prineipks  on  ivhich  war  is  made  and  conduct- 
ed by  men  professing  Uie  christian  religion  in  the  nmiici.ntk  century  ! 
I.ct  these  princii)les  become  the  siiljects  of  serious  rcllcctiou  ;  and  let 
lU  in<juiry  be  instituted — Whether  the  hi.itory  of  tiic  rfur/j  ((g».,v,  t'lnnish 
osaiiy  piineiples  of  conduct  more  delusiAe  or  more  t'atul  ?  Or  any 
which  will  allovd  Diuttej'  of  •-'re:i1'r  pM'.'ni'liin' nt  -ind  reo-n.t  t-^  I'lUii  — 
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^lu  tr  to  this  should  b«  the  reasoning  and  deportment 
of  a  subjcJ*!  wh§H  required  to  mzke  war  on  innocent  peo- 
ple to  revenge  the  injuries  done  by  'heir  rulers,  or  for  the 
aggrandizement  of  his  own  nation.  He  should  reniembet 
that  every  grade  .^  human  authority,  is  to  be  held  in  strict 
subordination  to  the  authority  of  God  j  and  that  ai  a  hoI- 
tj.t>»  under  no  obligation  tv  "»bey  the  order  of  a  subaU 
tern,  which  i«  unjust  in  itself  and  plainly  repugnant  to  » 
known  command  of  hii  general,  so  no  man  is  bound  to  o- 
bcy  any  command  of  an  earthly  ruler,  when  the  thmg  re- 
quired  is  manifestly  unjust  to  fellow  beings,  and  plainly 
forbidden  by  the  authority  of  Jehovah. 

Of  all  the  acts  of  tyranny  which  have  ever  been  excrcis* 
ed  by  the  most  inhuman  de^:pots,  there  are  none  more  un- 
just and  abominable,  than  that  of  compelling  innocent  men 
of  different  nations  to  shed  the  blood  of  each  other.  Is  it 
not,  then,  time  for  enlightened  Christians  of  every  najnc, 
to  raise  their  voices  against  this  species  of  tyranny  and  bar- 
barity i  ;ind  to  let  the  rulers  of  nations  inoiv,  that  they  are 
determined  to  die  as  martyrs,  rather  than  to  be  any  more 
concerned  in  shedding  innocent  blood  ?  Is  it  not  also 
time  for  the  rulers  of  Christendom,  either  to  renounce  o- 
penly  all  pretenrions  to  the  name  of  Christians,  or  to  adopt 
some  more  equitable  method  for  settling  their  disputes, 
vhan  the  uncertain  and  cruel  game  of  war  ? 

We  blush  for  our  ancestors  when  we  read  of  the  Ordeal 
dnd  the  Judicia!  Combat^  for  deciding  the  question  of 
guilty,  or  not  guilty.  But  these  monstrous  customs  were 
m  no  respect  more  unreasonable,  and  they  were  far  less  de- 
structive, than  the  present  popular  mode  of  deciding  the 
disputes  of  rulers-  We  have  indeed  exploded  soi^e  of  the 
barbarous  customs  of  forme  ■  nges ;  but  the  won.  ij ....'{ Wi. 
have  retained,  embellished,  and  idolized. 

These  censures,  however,  should  not  be  passea  with  un» 
mixed  severity.     Some  palliation  may  be  derived  from  the 

ell  known  fact,  that  the  present  rulers  of  Chrlstendomi 


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as  well  as  their  subjects,  descended  from  barbarous  ance<« 
tors,  who  associated  the  principles  of  war  wit  ha  professiou 
of  Christianity — but  too  much  excluding  a  regard  for  ite 
spirit  and  precepts.  This  I  "terogeneou  ^  compound  ot 
darkncKS  and  light,  has  been  transmitted  from  father  (o  son, 
•4own  to  the  present  time  It  has  had  a  jcrniciuus  influence 
vn  the  modes  of  education,  and  bewildered,  to  an  awful  ex- 
(.ent(  the  high  and  the  low,  the  rich  and  the  poor.  Such 
h:^vir.  been  th«  case  both  with  rulers  and  subjects,  the 
;^rf:tt  object  now  should  he,  to  illuminate  the  public  mind, 
vO  kiiav'ge  public  opinion,  and  to  convince  all  classes  o> 
picn,  that  the  path  of  wisdom  is  the  path  of  peace. 

In  addition  to  the  general  diffusion  of  pacific  principles, 
there  should  be  unwearied  endeavors  to  cultivate  a  benev- 
olent spirit,  by  the  influence  of  education,  and  by  the  in- 
terchange of  beneficent  oflices,  between  people  of  neigh- 
bouring states,  under  the  same  government  and  under  dif- 
ferent governments.  In  this  way  a  Barrier  against  the 
danger  of  war  might  soon  be  raised,  of  more  utility  to  the 
United  States,  than  a  Chinese  Wall  as  high  as  the  Ande-? 
and  as  extensive  as  our  frontiers  -,  and  more  useful  than  ,\ 
fleet  of  as  many  ships  of  war,  as  could  float  on  the  water: 
between  New-Orleans  and  Newfoundland. 

Only  reflect  for  a  moment  on  the  expense,  the  peril:. 
:ind  the  effects  of  a  military  expedition,  to  destroy  and 
plunder  the  town  of  St.  Johns,  compared  with  the  expense, 
the  perils  and  effects  of  the  charitable  enterprise.  On  tht 
one  hand,  behold  a  fleet  prepared  at  an  expense  of  millioni.- 
of  dollars,  freighted  with  the  horrible  apparatus  of  ven- 
geance and  man!<laughter,  and  with  thousands  of  our  citiV 
sens,  mad  with  enthusiasm,  to  engage  in  the  work  of  con- 
'lagration,  pillage  and  murder  !  This  expedition,  whether 
successful  or  not,  must  call  into  operation  a  host  of  the  vil* 
est  passions  which  ever  disgraced  tho  humac  character — 
."■well  the  awful  aggregate  of  depravity  and  crime,  and  cause 
ihe  destruction  or  distre.<!s  of  thcu?ar.'?5;  •( ojir  "pccies.     No; 


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only  so,  it  would  probably  excite  and  lix  in  many  mind? 
the  most  implacable  prejudices  and  resentments,  which 
would  be  retained  as  seeds  of  future  conflicts  and  disasters. 
On  the  other  hand,  behold  a  single  brig  freighted  with 
the  offerings  of  benevolence,  at  the  expense  of  a  few  thou- 
sand dollars,  and  manned  with  a  small  number  of  trusty  and 
generous  seamen.  Having  no  enemy  to  encounter,  they 
are  exposed  only  to  the  usual  perils  of  the  ocean  in  a  win- 
ter voyay;e  in  a  northern  climate.  Amidst  these  perils 
they  are  cheered  with  the  reflection,  that  thpy  are  engaged 
in  an  enterprise  of  mercy,  for  the  relief  of  suff'ering  breth- 
ren, and  that  the  Father  of  all  is  their  Protector.  On  ar- 
riving at  the  destinedportjincteadof  scattering  fire-brands, 
arrows  and  dearh,  to  multiply  the  distresses  and  torments 
of  their  species — they  announce  the  benign  object  of  their 
mission,  deliver  the  fruits  of  christian  beneficence,  gladden 
the  hearts  of  the  sorrowful,  cause  them  t»  weep  for  joy, 
and  to  express  the  feelings  of  their  souls  in  the  melting 
strains  of  gratitude.  Thus,  with  a  very  trifling  expense, 
compared  with  %hat  of  a  war  mission,  a  tide  of  delightful 
emotions  and  friendly  feelings  is  produced  in  the  minds  of 
multitudes  in  different  countriei.  Perhaps  too,  by  the 
same  means,  a  tree  of  life  and  peace  is  planted,  which,  if 
properly  nourished,  will  grow  up  and  extend  its  saving 
branches  over  all  the  United  States,  and  all  the  British  do- 
minions. 

This  is  indeed  a  very  imperfect  but  unexaggerated  de- 
scription of  the  contrast  between  a  military  and  a  benevo- 
lent mission.  But,  imperfect  as  it  is,  we  may  safely  infer 
from  it  that  if  men  would  become  so  wise  as  to  try  the  ex- 
periment, they  would  find  it  much  cheaper  to  preserve 
peace  than  to  make  war.  Bad  as  mankind  are,  they  are 
not  only  capable  of  being  made  worse  by  war,  but  of  being 
melted,  conciliated  and  won,  by  human  kindness.  This  ie 
unquestionably   true  of  savages  ;  and  we  may  hope  that 


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minds 
which 

jasters, 

1  with 
r  thou- 
sty  and 
r,  they 
,  a  win- 
I   perils 
mgaged 
g  breth- 
Onar- 
•brands, 
orments 
of  their 
gladden 
for  joy, 
melting 
expense, 
lelightful 
minds  of 
,  by  the 
vhich,  if 
ts  saving 
ritish  dp- 
rated  de- 
a  benevo- 
"ely  infer 
y  the  ex- 
preserve 
,  they  are 
t  of  being 
This  16 
looe  that 


Christians  are  not  less  susceptible  of  such  influence  than 
barbarians  and  brute  animals. 

Hitherto  the  ingenuity,  ambition  and  enterprise  of  man, 
have  been  principally  directed  to  the  arts  and  practices  of 
war;  and  deplorable  have  been  the  consequences.  The 
world  has  been  filled  with  havoc,  oppression  and  misery. 
One  sanguinary  conflict  has  been  the  cause  and  the  pre- 
cursor of  another  in  rapid  succession  ;  and  the  business  of 
war  and  manslaughter  has  acquired  the  title  of  an  honeura- 
able  profession ! 

Let  a  different  policy  now  be  adopted — a  different  di- 
rection be  given  to  human  ingenuity  and  enterprize ;  let 
these  qualities  be  directed  to  the  arts  of  peace  and  proper 
expressions  of  good  will  at  home  and  abroad  ;  let  the  Mis- 
sion to  St.  Johns  and  the  little  which  has  been  done  in 
disseminating  the  principles  of  peace,  be  followed  with  such 
exertion  and  perseverance,  as  are  commonly  displayed  in 
preparing  for  war  and  in  pursuing  the  work  of  murder  and 
desolation.  Then  every  man  may  sit  under  his  own  vine 
and  fig-tree,  having  none  to  molest  o"- make  him  afraid. 
Then  too  will  be  realized  that  blessed  state  of  society, 
when  "  nation  shall  not  lift  up  sword  against  nation,  neith- 
er shall  they  learn  war  any  more."     "  And  all  flesb 

3HALL  SEETHE  SALVATION    OF  GoD." 


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Extract  from  "  Lines  .Addressed  to  the  citizt::s  <■/ 
Hoslon,"  ijj'c. 

This  is  thy  work,  O  PFACt,  true  friend  of  mati, 

Celestial  visitant  too  seldom  seen 

In  this  our  cartU — (In  Ilcuven  ihou  always  dwcH'sl, 

And  all  is  joy  and  all  is  sweet  repose) — 

Thy  works  arc  always  such  ;  where'er  thou  reiijii's'. 

{'iiilaiilhropy  exults — Relit^ion  smiles  ; 

1  he  barren  wilderness  hecomes  a  iield 

Ml'jrious  In  ver'-lme— -aU'l  tlic  wolf  arid  kid. 


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The  lion  aiul  tlic  lamb,  lie  down  togetlier, 
riiy  presence  breathes  out  iVagrante — and  thy  handu 
Scatter  the  fruits  of  Plenty  all  around. 
Uniteil  in  thy  blest  and  holy  hands 
May  Albion  and  Columbia  ever  rest. 
I/ar  from  the  minds  of  each,  1)C  horrid  strife 
Tor  evermore.     Till  taught  by  llieir  example^ 
\11  nations  lay  aside  their  arms,  and  war 
"lie  known  uiiiong  tlic  bona  of  men  no  more. 

HOMO. 


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The  following  is  the  language  of  the  London  Morning 
Chronicle  on  hearing  of  the  Beneficent  Mission  : 

*'  May  the  period  soon  arrive  in  which  Britain  and  tho 
descendants  of  Britain  shall  be  found  engaged  in  no  other 
rivalry  with  each  other  than  what  has  for  its  objects  the 
comforts,  the  happiness,  the  improvement  and  indepen- 
dence of  all  the  nations  of  the  earth." — Let  the  heart  of 
every  American  respond— Amen. 

Oh  !  first  of  human  blessings,  and  supreme — 
Fair  Peace  I  how  lovely,  how  delightful  thou  I 
By  whose  wide  tic  the  kindred  sons  of  men 
Like  brothers  live,  in  amity  cornbin'd. 

ThOMI'SOS. 


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DIED,  since  the  publication  of  No.  XII.  Caleb  Gannett. 
Esq.  of  Cambridge,  aged  73 — Samuel  Salisbury,  Esq.  oi 
Boston,  aged  78. 


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t'MINTENDED   OMISSION. 

iiev.  Jo/in  Bartlctt,  Marblchead,  was  omitted  m  giviiiy 
iiic  list  of  Members  of  the  M.  P.  S,  in  No.  XI. 

IMr.  Thomaa  Arnold  was  omitted  in  giving  the  names  oi 
ihc  Trustees  of  the  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plajita- 
.«ns  Peace  Society  in  No.  XII 


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Music,  selected  from  the  Songs  of   the  Temple,  witli.^:;}y^ 
ireference  to  Belknap's  Psalms   and  Hymns.      Also,  '^|  .^ 
the  same,    adapted   to   Watts's   Psalms  and  Hymns.  J;^'^^v 
J^oth  printed  in  small  volumes  for  the-pocket|^. ,  -^\,/_^0^f:;i^  f' 

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;vVlvt''  ■   ^'•'  ■  ■-"  PREFACE 

,    '-^'^  Tt  is  evident  to  tnost  people,  wlio  attend  public  worship,  and.  ^i'^^Al^iri^: 

especially  to  those,  who  unite  to  true  devotional  fceliijg  a  chaste  -  'i  'x"-!iil^ 

musical  taste,  that,  among  the  vuvious  choirs  m  our  religious  ''^:^^^yif'^:. 

assemblies,  there  is  a  great  want  of  proper  adaptation,  in  the-,;^-, 'fV;|^t  • 

tune  sclecicd,  to  the  psalm  or  hymn  read  from  the  desk.     There  ^-'I'Tif^^^: 

is  often  such  incongruity,  qontrariety,  and  combating,  (if  the  .^^I'lt;  *"'''- 

expression  be  allowed,)  between  sound  and  sentiment,  that  the ''*>';■,•*  ;^ 

serious  and  devout,  particularly  those  whiq.  delight  in  the  "  sa-;i;';ii^^"^;r, 

'  ,  cred  song,"  are  highly  wounded  and  disgusted.     Some  chor-  '" .  A- V^:^ 

istcrs  have  supposed,  that  a  right  metre  and  key  were  the  only  '^^^  aI^I'  ?v 

requisites  in  selecting  the   music,  not  once  thinking  that  the  IvHV'^ 

50und  should  "  seem  an  echo  to  the  sense."     It  is  tinie  an  at' 

1^1       tempt  was  made  to  cure  this  evil,  and 'the  present  work  aims  at  j. 

f  vX     such  an  object.     Whether  it  will  in  any  degi'ee  be  successful,,. 

""■VV       tem.ains  to  be  ascertained.     Certainly  there  has  been  no  lack;' 

';4f -of  industry  and'attention  in  the  unde|toking.  1 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  numbers  and  metres  only  pf  the  psalms     . 

and   hymns  are  inserted,  with  the  names  of  such  tunes  as  are  ', 

-'     ihought  to  be  suited  thereto,  averaging  about  six  to  each.     Drs.  ^'^^fj  * 

'.'     ^'atts  and  Belknap  have  been  selected,  as  being  more  in  usq '#:%-i|^;,t.,. 

^  '  than  any  other  psalm  or  hymn  books.     The  music  may  all  be  j  ■;  VfU^*-, 

^    iouhd  in  the  So7!gs  of  the  Temfi/e,     Here  it  may  be  well  to  ob- 

jv,  i^erve  that  all  fanciful  airs  and  clamorous  fu&ues,  all  wildly- 

J^>  warbled  slurs,  graces,  and  laboured   cantabiles  are  totally   in- 

;onsistent  with  divine  worship.     "  Procul,  O  !  procul  cste  pro- 

fani  !'*  Let  no  sacrilegious  mockery  be  offered  up  in  solemn 

praise  and  adoration  to  the  great  Jehovah. 

'V:     To  some,  perhaps  to  many,  this  humble  production  may  be 

•tijought  of  no  importance ;  yet   it  is   sincerely  and  devoutly 

^opou^itHat,  in  some  measure,  it  will  be.  effectual  in  regulating 

and  improving  our  taste  in  the  most  exalted  and  ino'st  delight- 

fu).  of  ?.!!  employments. 


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